Autor: Annotated by Liu Yangzhong

Yan Shu, also known by his courtesy name Tongshu, was posthumously honored as Yuanxian, and therefore later referred to as Yan Yuanxian. He hailed from Linchuan, Fuzhou (now Fuzhou, Jiangxi), and pla …

Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072), whose courtesy name is Yongshu, was born in Yongfeng (now Jiangxi), Jizhou. In his later years, he styled his name as Liuyi Jushi. As the head of the Northern Song Dynasty’s l …